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    How Rights Went Wrong

    Columbia University Law Professor Jamal Greene looked at America’s approach to individual rights and offered his thoughts on how to build a better system of justice. This virtual event was h…

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    A Worse Place Than Hell

    Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John Matteson looked at how the Civil War’s 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg impacted the lives of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Army…

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    Land

    Author Simon Winchester examined the use of land and the concept of property ownership throughout human history. This was a virtual event hosted by the Boston Athenaeum.

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    The Book Collectors

    French journalist Delphine Minoui reported on the efforts of a group of Syrians to build a library during that country’s civil war. This was a virtual event hosted by the Boston Athenaeum an…

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